Math: Ratios, Rates, and Percentages
We will begin the year building a strong understanding of ratios and equivalent ratios before moving into unit rates and percentages. Students will learn how these concepts are used in everyday situations and develop strategies to solve real-world problems.
Families can help at home! The next time you go grocery shopping, ask your student to compare prices using unit rates (price per one). When you see a sale or discount, have them think about percentages and estimate how much an item will cost after the discount. These simple conversations are a great way to connect classroom learning to real life!
Science:
6th Grade Earth Science will be exploring how land, water and humans interact this quarter. Please make sure your kids have good walking shoes every Thursday as we will be walking to Miller Rancho Open Space during class for Outdoor Labs. We will also be exploring our watershed by going rafting on Friday, September 11th! Please remind your kids for these permission slips and get them signed and turned in as soon as possible.
Language Arts:
Mrs. Anderson's Language Arts: The students will review figurative language and theme as we read personal narratives. The students will then write their own personal narrative.
Mrs. McElduff's Language Arts: 6th Grade Language Arts will spend this quarter diving into the world of change and how change can be significant for us. Students will read a variety of short texts and write a personal narrative about an event that changed them. Our grammatical focus will be on sentence structures. Please READ with your child 20 minutes a night, they are not too old to be read to!!! Reading books in ANY language is great! If you need a good book recommendation, contact me and I'll send some books home from our library OR your child's student ID is their AVON/Eagle Public Library card.
Ms. Chamberlin's Language Arts: In our first unit, "Stories of Change", we will read several short stories, personal narratives, and some excerpts from novels. We will focus on two essential questions: How can change be significant? and What makes a good story? Students will use active reading strategies including annotating the text, asking leveled questions, and building vocabulary through use of examining word morphology, denotations, and context clues. Our texts will serve as mentor texts to examine the author's craft as we engage in writing alternate story endings and personal narratives with emphasis on story structure characterization, theme, imagery and figurative language.
Exploratory:
6th Grade Exploratory students are diving into what it means to be a self-directed learner as well as what it takes to build a strong community. Students will be sampling different focus options and competitions that they can then choose to dive deeper into for the rest of the year. Students will first experience being engineers for two weeks by designing and building bridges out of balsa wood and glue... only to test how much mass it takes to destroy them. Then the next two weeks students will then explore what it's like to compete in Brain Bowl, History Bee and Math counts.
